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Ask questions to the candidates running for the GNOME Foundation elections

Submitted by vuntz on Mon, 2003-11-03 16:43. Gnome Foundation

We want the GNOME community to be involved in the GNOME Foundation, and one way to involve you is to allow you to ask questions to the candidates running for the GNOME Foundation elections. Here's your chance to know what the candidates think about what is concerning you.

Please ask one question per post (and no more). Telsa will select the 10 best questions and we'll send them to the candidates.You may want to look at last year's questions.

Update: Note that you'll still be able to directly ask questions to the candidates by posting on foundation-list.Being on the board of the GNOME Foundation is not a technical job, so please try to avoid posting questions about developement and other hacking type stuff. The GNOME Foundation charter might also be of some interest.

The right way to complain

Submitted by Anonymous George on Tue, 2003-11-04 16:36.

In several of these threads-- starting with Galeon and the 1.4 vs. 2.0 issues-- I've seen people say "I hate that program" or "it's totally unusable."

You should know better than to talk that way. It's perfectly legitimate to state that you dislike a program, but put some effort into it.

Bad: OpenOffice sucks!

Good: "I find OpenOffice too slow to start up, and the configuration UI is terrifying."

Bad: Epiphany is obviously worse than Galeon. They took all the features away!

Good: "I prefer the way the Galeon bookmarks worked, and I miss having a browser with its own MIME type database-- I often want different MIME handlers depending on what application I'm using.

Bad: 2.0 Sucks! 1.4 Ruled!

Good: I miss features a, b, and c, and the equivalent workarounds are not satisfactory to me because x, y, z.

Come on kids, give us a good reason. Ideally, file a bug. A polite bug.

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